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by cascom 8y ago
While I wholeheartedly agree with you: 1. Everyone I know already hates their cable/phone company 2. The ISPs don’t pretend to be a force for good, or not be evil, or allow you to have privacy controls they essentialy meet their very l
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by cascom 8y ago
The low performers are beyond low performers, the 6th decile at the federal govnerment would be the bottom decile at most larger well run private organizations. Again i am talking white collar federal government. At the margin, in corporate
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by cascom 8y ago
From my brief view into a federal agency: Employee breakdown is as follows: 1/6 extremely capable and dedicated high performers 1/6 extremely capable and dedicated but go home at 5pm 1/3 average (not going to screw things up
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by cascom 8y ago
The adoption of electric busses over CNG doesn’t make a whole lot sense to me? In a perfect world going electric would be great - but it seems like CNG offers the right balance of lower fuel cost and cleaner emissions while maintaining flee
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by cascom 8y ago
Gandi.net for both (nothing complicated on the hosting Side)
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by cascom 8y ago
Alternate theory: increased traffic congestion leads to lower speeds resulting in fewer pedestrian deaths
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by cascom 8y ago
Before reaching any conclusions I might ask: Looks like the data set is only NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ... A. have those exchanges strengthened their listing criteria, making it harder to list B. Has the number of firms listed on alternative exchan
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by cascom 8y ago
From the article I think I only saw one comment that involved gender - I think it’s pretty unfair to ascribe gender motivation to many of the responses (as embarrassing to read as they are). Secondly, what is the implied norm that the autho
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by cascom 8y ago
totally agree - perhaps it should should just have two "blobs" one for best case and another for worst cast traffic wise...
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by cascom 8y ago
A nation state (whose population’s ethnicity is mostly one and the same) undertakes a massive and state sponsored campaign of corporate and military espionage, predominantly via the theft of secrets. They get caught numerous times red hande
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by cascom 8y ago
I don’t think the US requires you to give up your foreign passport anymore after naturalization - not sure about China
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What's the deal with 3-D plastic guns – and Freedom of Speech(balkin.blogspot.com)
1 points by cascom 8y ago|0 comments
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by cascom 8y ago
you only need to use a wifi connection on an airplane to see how painful things are - it's like a time warp
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by cascom 8y ago
#1 the information is limited, but it is available https://goo.gl/images/9zCMNR #2 is an issue I've encountered as well
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by cascom 8y ago
I switched to ARQ ( https://www.arqbackup.com/ ) a while back after a near miss with a hard drive failure, and think its an amazing product - the key elements to me are that: 1. It is storage location agnostic (backup to a us
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by cascom 8y ago
Did you all have a sense for the scope of the problem in terms of number participants and market share? Is the bulk of the calls from a few larger networks, or is the bulk of the market one man shows?
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by cascom 8y ago
So let's say the buyer didn't go running his mouth about stealing the money, and didn't lie about who the beneficial owner was, how exactly is having his name as the beneficial owner of a property going to stop money launderi
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by cascom 8y ago
Seems penalizing the student is the wrong way to go, rather I'd penalize the institution: e.g. if the institutions has a low graduation rate, and low post-graduation salaries that would be expensive, high graduation rate coupled with h
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by cascom 8y ago
I believe (and its just a guess) that it has to do with the Office of Foreign Asset Control's enforcement of various sanctions programs, as i think it is illegal to do any business with Cuban nationals as a financial institution (and N
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America’s Abandoned $6B Missile Pyramid(warisboring.com)
1 points by cascom 8y ago|0 comments
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by cascom 8y ago
The article discusses where you can get Citizenship for cash, the OP is addressing Residency for cash (which can lead to citizenship eventually) - those are two different lists. One's desire to obtain Citizenship may have a very differ
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by cascom 8y ago
Actually there is not much of tax benefit to being a citizen most places (vs resident) - meaning you can accomplish most tax avoidance without actually becoming a citizen
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by cascom 8y ago
The list would be totally different if the question was where could you get permanent residency for cash - I would guess the US would be at the top of the list along with Singapore, Australia, Cyprus, Canada, and Switzerland (who I think us
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by cascom 8y ago
Political instability in their home country/lack of rule of law - basically an escape plan. The tax issue doesn’t really apply as residence (rather than citizenship) is the determining factor for the vast majority of people (but not Am
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by cascom 8y ago
It seems from the public’s perspective, the only piece of information that will no longer available is how many donors there are and at what amount. The public was never getting a donor list except in unauthorized disclosures. The article a
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by cascom 8y ago
One simple question - what is the math if one data center goes down? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/24/us/disasters-...
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Japan's growing plutonium stockpile fuels fears(channelnewsasia.com)
1 points by cascom 8y ago|0 comments
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Luxury Lounge Wars Heat Up as Airlines Vie for High-End Passengers(nytimes.com)
1 points by cascom 8y ago|0 comments
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by cascom 8y ago
Isn’t this a little like flipping a coin four times - getting heads four times in a row, and looking at your friend and saying “but you told me the odds were 50/50 each flip?!”
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by cascom 8y ago
I've used most of the personal finance software out there at one point or another, currently use https://gnucash.org/and love it (though i do use http://www.tradelogsoftware.com/ for the tax side of th

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